
Curious Pictures
440 Lafayette St, Fl 6, New York, NY, 10003, United States
Overview
Curious Pictures is a leading creative-driven multi-platform production and entertainment company. The company uses its extensive production, animation, digital and commercials expertise to create entertainment in all media in the form of television shows, new media content, commercials, interactive/video games, feature films, visual effects, and books. Curious works with and for many of the most respected brands worldwide. Curious Pictures is home to over one hundred and fifty accomplished artists, writers, directors, and designers, as well as producers, advertising professionals, marketing and media experts. Founded in 1993 with headquarters in New York, Curious Pictures leverages a flexible, diversified production infrastructure dedicated to making next generation quality entertainment and content. Curious work, and the work of its directors and producers, has been recognized by the Academy Awards, the Emmy Awards, BAFTA, the British Animation Awards, the Webby Awards, Promax/BDA, The One Show, One Show Interactive, the Cannes Lions Festival, the AICP Show, the International Animated Film Festival in France and the Ottawa International Animation Festival. Curious Pictures' mission is to ignite minds, fuel imagination and inspire creativity to produce compelling visual storytelling across the media spectrum.
- Total investments
- 1
- Lead investments
- 1
- Investments · 12mo
- 0
- Active investors
- 0
Sector focus
- Advertising
- Video
Investment portfolio
- PlaySquare
Led · Equity · Apr 2013
PlaySquare is a startup founded by Emmy-winning children’s television producers that builds "touchable TV" interactive apps for the iPad. It transforms licensed assets from PBS's WordWorld into in-TV activities that advance stories rather than passive viewing. The company reports close to 100,000 downloads and users have spent over 13 million minutes in the app since launch, averaging more than five minutes per session. PlaySquare's team is seven people and will relocate to Curious Pictures' New York offices to leverage the larger company's talent and infrastructure. The company plans to release two more WordWorld episodes this fall (priced $2.99 each via in-app purchase) and has signed a second, undisclosed property for production this fall. Longer-term it aims to pursue more original content and act as a studio partner for larger TV brands to scale its touchable-TV approach.
Team
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